Q 9 Intermarry with us; give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves. R 10 You can settle among us; S the land is open to you. T Live in it, trade [ b ] in it, U and acquire property in it. Only give me the young woman as my wife. AA That would be a disgrace to us. AC 16 Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. In the legal discourse around sexual intercourse with a virgin outside of wedlock, whether she was betrothed to another man or not, the woman was presumed to have consented if she did not cry out in protest in the city or town, and to have been raped if she was taken in the open country where her cries could not have been heard Deuteronomy The story then may be read as a polemic against inter-marriage, where the abduction of Dinah becomes the pretext for the severance of ties with Shechem and the Hivites, one of the Canaanite tribes.
While the residents agree to circumcise themselves because they stand to gain not only women but a great many livestock v. Further, Jacob keeps silent and remains passive throughout the negotiations; the reader does not know whether he approves of the marriage proposal. He will now live in fear of retaliation and, despite having bought land near Shechem with the intention of settling down , he must move on.
Others argue that the people of Shechem were prototypes for the Samaritans, a people nominally identified with Israel before the Babylonian exile, but excluded from allying with the Jews upon their return to Zion circa 5 th century BCE. Alternatively, if she was raped, her own pain and anguish must be heard over the violent clamor in defense of male honor.
Amit, Yairah. Hidden Polemics in Biblical Narrative, trans. Jonathan Chipman. Leiden: E. Brill, , Bechtel, Lyn. Relating to the period in Judean history following the Babylonian exile — B.
When they heard of it, the men were indignant and very angry, because he had committed an outrage in Israel b Hebrew is regarded as the spoken language of ancient Israel but is largely replaced by Aramaic in the Persian period. The set of Biblical books shared by Jews and Christians. A more neutral alternative to "Old Testament. Amnon and Tamar 1Some time passed.
David's son Absalom had a beautiful sister whose name was Tamar; and David's son Amnon fell in love with her. Site HarperCollins Dictionary. People Home Dinah. Add this:. Dinah by Alison L. Joseph Dinah, the only mentioned daughter of the patriarch Jacob, emerges in Gen 34 , only to disappear from the text.
Dinah goes out to visit the women of the land. We are not told her reasons, although Genesis Rabbah ca. She is seen by Shechem, the prince of the local village, also named Shechem, who takes her and has sex with her Gen Offering a generous bride-price , they suggest that their peoples intermarry. An alternative reading suggests that Shechem seduces Dinah.
The biblical text is disinterested in the circumstances of the sex act beyond the fact that they are not married and he is a foreigner. But the law could also condemn a woman to marry her rapist. In that atmosphere, I find it troubling to turn a story of rape into a romance. But we know that at the very least, her brothers care enough to protect her, and go against an entire society — and indeed their own father- to bring her home. Like this post? Rabbis Without Borders.
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